Trask: “Team will remain in the Davis family”

Raiders owner Al Davis passed away Saturday morning, but not before he helped map out a plan for the team’s future. While there has been speculation that his wife, Carol, and son, Mark, would sell the controlling interest in the team once he passed, that is not the case.

“The team will remain in the Davis family,” chief executive Amy Trask said Saturday night. “There is a succession plan in place in that regard.”

While Carol and Mark Davis were grieving and unavailable for comment, Trask said there is “a good structure in place.”

Mark Davis will likely hire a general manager, but in the short term will make football decisions along with Raiders coach Hue Jackson.

Al Davis had previously said control of the team would go Carol and Mark when he died, and also mentioned in a 2006 news conference that former Raiders coach John Madden might have a role.

“If something happened to Al, I’m sure (Madden) would be someone that Carol Davisand Mark Daviswould call, along with several others who have been Raiders most of their lives and still have a tremendous loyalty to it,” Al Davis said then.